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Cn 13 rt a 64 WINNETKA TALK December 3, 1927 WINNETKA CONTINUES GOOD BUILDING PACE Twenty-nine Permits for Total of $341,750 Issued in November _ Twenty-nine building permits were issued in Winnetka during the month of November, representing a total im- provement of $341,750, a very good showing for this late month in the year, it is said, but considerably below the high standard set during the moath of November a year ago, when the total reached $593,930. The latter figure, however, included permits for both the M. K. Meyers and the Haugan apartment buildings, a total of $280,000, while the permits for the month just ending, include but one building of that nature, the one being erected by the E. T. Leonard Co., on Linden avenue, Hubbard Woods, and costing $135,000. Thirteen Residence Permits Thirteen Cy fhe twenty-nine permits were issue: or residences, costin $190,000; four were for io jobs, costing $9,850; eight were for private garages costing $4,000; two were for foundations for residences, costing $1,400 and another was for a masonry dry cleaning plant, at 564 Center street, issued to Albert H. McKeighan and costing $1500. Five of the permits for new resi- dences were issued to George Gon- salves, who builds houses in flocks. They will all be two story frame, brick veneer, three costing $10,000 each and the other two, $9,000 each. The first three will be on Church road, at Nos. 231, 237 and 241; the other two will be at Nos. 230 and 240 Center street. Other Permits Issued The other permits were issued to | Another Landmark Soon to Pass This once palatial residence, built by the late Dr. Alexander Hammond on Green Bay road, is to be torn down to make room for new homes. S. S. Bemon, for a two story frame and brick veneer, 975 Vernon avenue, $14,000; D B. Hull, two story brick and attached garage, at 1248 Asbury ave- nue, $29,000; Sadie Cowen, two story frame and brick veneer, 576 Hill ter- race, $16,000; Ried E. Menard, two story frame and brick veneer, attached garage, $14,000; Dan M. Rugg, two story, 199 Birch street, $19,000; M. A. McCalmon, two story frame and brick veneer, 1083 Ash street, $10,000; Mon- roe Cole, two story frame and brick veneer, attached garage, on _ Arbor Vitae, $20,000; Julia W. Herdic, two story frame, on Sunset road, $20,000. BUYS HUBBARD WOODS BLDG. Henry Harfst of Ravinia has pur- chased the Aitken building, corner Lin- den and Gage streets in Hubbard Woods. This is considered one of the finest business blocks on the North Shore. Baird and Warner acted as agents for both parties. OUR SERVICE includes Selling and Leasing of Residences Lots and Acres Complete Financing Connections Insurance in All Its Branches How May We Serve You? floor. netka office. Here Is An Exceptional Home Value Reduced in Price for Immediate Sale This Brand New Brick %¥ Timbered Stucco home of 8 fine rooms and 3 tiled baths, and lavatory and toilet on Ist Owner has put the best of materials and workmanship into this home, in addition to being up-to-the-minute in style. He is now willing to sacrifice in order to sell at once. Kitchen has tiled walls and floor, Ilg ventilating fan, Elec. refrig. Double brick garage, deep lot. Key at our Win- «zai HILL & STONE sms 543 Lincoln Ave. WINNETKA Phones 1544-45 || RESIDENCE BUILT BY GLENCOE FOUNDER T0 GO "French Roof Cottage" at 777 Green Bay Road Soon to Disappear From View By E. T. Selby Sixty years ago when Glencoe was being carved out of the 525 acre stock farm which the late Dr. Alexander Hammond two years previously had purchased for $75 per acre, he built, among the first really preteatious residences in the village what he was pleased to term, the "French Roof Cottage," at 777 Green Bay road. Through the succeeding years it has stood as a monument to the ideal de- velopment which has surrounded it in the building of a village as visioned by the real founder of Glencoe, but, to- morrow, or in a few weeks at most, it is to go. The grounds, on which it stands, to- gether with the two and three-quarter acre tract which adjoining it on the east, are being rapidly developed into what is to be known as the Dennis Lane subdivision, in which, with the coming of spring, will begin to rise the more modern homes, rrovided in the highly restricted requirements of those who shall purchase the lots into which these grounds are being carved. House With a History This "French Roof Cottage" is lo- cated on a tract having a frontage of 204 feet on Green Bay road, with a depth of 297 feet. The razing of this beautiful building is, in reality, far more significant than the tearing down of the ordinary old house to make room for the new. Entwined in its history is included the very earliest chapters of the be- ginning of Glencoe, itself. Dr. Ham- mond, at the close of the war, in 1865, decided to leave his home in Skaneate- les, New York, to go west. He po- ssessed well defined ideas of just the sort of a section he desired to develop as a home and a community, and placed the Missouri river as the limit to the western terminus of his journey. Passing through this section he con- tinued on, pleased with the outlook here and also at Rockford, but he went on as far as Des Moines, Iowa. Here he remained only two nights and a day and retraced his steps to Rockford, where, for $25 per acre he purchased a wild prairie farm of 320 acres, four miles from the city. He later sold it for something like $50 an acre and came to Glencoe. Buys Glencoe for $43,000 Here, from Matthew C. Coe and Walter Gurnee, the former's son-in- law, he purchased what is now the principal part of the village, but what at that time was a 525 acre stock farm surrounding the Glencoe railroad sta- tion, and for which he paid $75 per acre, while for 160 acres, off in the Skokie, he paid $15 per acre. His total investment, in the way of backing his judgment as to the future of Glencoe, was more than $42,000. That was in 1866. The following April, Dr. Hammond moved to Glencoe and the erection of the earliest substantial homes began. Some of these have since given way to the march of progress, but it is significant that the one built by Dr. Hammond, himself, should be among the last to go. It is a large white frame house, comprising ten rooms, with many fire- places. a house in its day designed on the exterior as a piece of architectural beauty and on the interior for real comfort. Dr. Hammond did not occupy this house, himself, its first tenant being the late H. A. Willmarth.